Supporting our troops

Taking care of returning troops is a very difficult thing but it is worth it in the long run. they fight for our country and also for us so it is the least that we can do but for some reason taylor doesnt feel that way. The article writtin by veterans care states that a company offered taylor to a open its community to helping veteran female troops traumatized by war and they said no to all of it because they feel that the company will try and take over the neighborhood and also feel that it is making houseing for ex cons. I believe that taylor is in the wrong for what they are doing because one "houseing for ex cons?" troops are in no one realated to ex cons at all. Another thing is everyone else around the world does what they can to help our troops because they dont only fight for their country they also fight for us and we feel that they deserve the help they need. We also help the troops because in the long run we are also helping our country by being apart of helping our troops.

School Mumbo-Jumbo

Once again Texas Education Agency is putting more attention to taks scores than the grades students are getting in class as stated in Star Telegram. I chose this article because its something that everyone i know and myself have gone through back when we were in grade school. The TEA is more into into the taks test scores than what students grades were in the class because they wanted to make sure that the students were actually learning the material, but like always the TEA always makes new steps in taks scores and what they consider passing. They also put way more series of test that students have to take over the year because some students in school dont meet the required scores that they set. In 2010 the TEA has set the passing grade for 7th grade is 670 and the passing grade for 8th grade is 700, but it will keep changing over the years. This article is pretty accurate because when i was in grade school this was the same thing i had to go through, first we only had to take they taks test once a year, then it ended up changing to twice a year and the required scoring to pass also changed every year too. They would also pay more attention to our taks scores than what they would our class grades, even if we passed our regular classes with straight A's that would seem like it wouldnt be enough because our taks scores were so low or wouldnt meet the standard requirements that they had set.

Parking Tickets

No body likes getting parking tickets espeacially when the parking ticket your getting is for parking in a spot that has no "no parking" signs anywhere in site. Meghan Browne, a triathlete was finishing up her work out for the morning when she relized that she was being givin a ticket for parking in a no parking zone along west riverside drive. When she saw the police officer she asked why she was getting the ticket? The officer told her that it was a complaint from another driver that he couldnt get out from his spot because her car was parked in a no parking zone. Well she tells the officer that people park there all the time and points out there are no signs indicating that it is a no parking zone. she ended up fighting it in court and was very confinced she would win but she was more worried about why they dont put up any signs if people have been doing the samething for a year now. I thought this was an interesting subject to talk about because it pretty crazy how they just cant put up a little sign that says no parking that will solve everything and instead they just ignore it and pass out tickets left and right.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/2009/09/23/0923watch.html